Isaiah 32:16

The NET Bible®

Justice will settle down in the desert and fairness will live in the orchard.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then justice will inhabit the wilderness,and righteousness will dwell in the orchard.

Hebrew Names Version
Then justice shall dwell in the wilderness; and righteousness shall abide in the fruitful field.

King James Version
Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.

English Standard Version
Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness abide in the fruitful field.

New American Standard Bible
Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, And righteousness will remain in the fertile field.

New Century Version
Justice will be found even in the desert, and fairness will be found in the fertile fields.

Amplified Bible
Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, And righteousness will live in the fertile field.

World English Bible
Then justice shall dwell in the wilderness; and righteousness shall abide in the fruitful field.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And iudgement shal dwel in the desert, and iustice shall remaine in the fruitfull fielde.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then justice will dwell in the wilderness,And righteousness will live in the fruitful orchard.

Berean Standard Bible
Then justice will inhabit the wilderness, and righteousness will dwell in the fertile field.

Contemporary English Version
Honesty and justice will prosper there,

Complete Jewish Bible
Then justice will dwell in the desert, and righteousness abide in the fertile field.

Darby Translation
And judgment shall inhabit the wilderness, and righteousness dwell in the fruitful field.

Easy-to-Read Version
That is, what is now a desert will be filled with right decisions, and what is now a farmland will be filled with justice.

George Lamsa Translation
Then justice shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.

Good News Translation
Everywhere in the land righteousness and justice will be done.

Lexham English Bible
Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness will live in the fruitful field.

Literal Translation
Then justice shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness shall dwell in the fruitful field.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then shal equyte dwel in the deserte, and rightuousnesse in a fruteful londe.

American Standard Version
Then justice shall dwell in the wilderness; and righteousness shall abide in the fruitful field.

Bible in Basic English
Then in the waste land there will be an upright rule, and righteousness will have its place in the fertile field.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then justice shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness shall abide in the fruitful field.

King James Version (1611)
Then iudgement shall dwell in the wildernesse, and righteousnesse remaine in the fruitfull field.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then shall equitie dwell in the desert, and righteousnesse in a fruitfull lande.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Then judgement shall abide in the wilderness, and righteousness shall dwell in Carmel.

English Revised Version
Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness shall abide in the fruitful field.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And doom schal dwelle in wildirnesse, and riytfulnesse schal sitte in Chermel;

Update Bible Version
Then justice shall dwell in the wilderness; and righteousness shall abide in the fruitful field.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.

New King James Version
Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, And righteousness remain in the fruitful field.

New Living Translation
Justice will rule in the wilderness and righteousness in the fertile field.

New Life Bible
Then what is right and fair will be in the desert. What is right and good will be in the field of much fruit.

New Revised Standard
Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness abide in the fruitful field.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then shall, justice inhabit, the wilderness, And righteousness, in the garden-land, shall abide;

Douay-Rheims Bible
An judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and justice shall sit in charmel.

Revised Standard Version
Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness abide in the fruitful field.

Young's Literal Translation
And dwelt in the wilderness hath judgment, And righteousness in the fruitful field remaineth.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then justice will dwell in the wilderness And righteousness will abide in the fertile field.

Contextual Overview

⁹ You complacent women, get up and listen to me! You carefree daughters, pay attention to what I say! ¹⁰ In a year's time you carefree ones will shake with fear, for the grape harvest will fail, and the fruit harvest will not arrive. ¹¹ Tremble, you complacent ones! Shake with fear, you carefree ones! Strip off your clothes and expose yourselves— put sackcloth on your waist! ¹² Mourn over the field, over the delightful fields and the fruitful vine! ¹³ Mourn over the land of my people, which is overgrown with thorns and briers, and over all the once-happy houses in the city filled with revelry. ¹⁴ For the fortress is neglected; the once-crowded city is abandoned. Hill and watchtower are permanently uninhabited. Wild donkeys love to go there, and flocks graze there. ¹⁵ This desolation will continue until new life is poured out on us from heaven. Then the desert will become an orchard and the orchard will be considered a forest. ¹⁶ Justice will settle down in the desert and fairness will live in the orchard. ¹⁷ Fairness will produce peace and result in lasting security. ¹⁸ My people will live in peaceful settlements, in secure homes, and in safe, quiet places.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Isaiah 35:8, Isaiah 42:4, Isaiah 56:6-8, Isaiah 60:21, Psalms 94:14, Psalms 94:15, Hosea 3:5, 1 Corinthians 6:9-11, Titus 2:11, Titus 2:12, 1 Peter 2:9-12, 1 Peter 4:1-4

Reciprocal: Psalms 72:3 - mountains Psalms 85:10 - righteousness Isaiah 28:6 - for a spirit Isaiah 35:1 - wilderness Isaiah 42:1 - he shall Isaiah 42:11 - Let the wilderness Matthew 12:18 - and he Mark 12:9 - and will Acts 2:17 - I will James 3:18 - the fruit

Cross-References

Genesis 32:8
"If Esau attacks one camp," he thought, "then the other camp will be able to escape."

Genesis 32:9
Then Jacob prayed, "O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, O Lord , you said to me, ‘Return to your land and to your relatives and I will make you prosper.'

Genesis 32:20
You must also say, ‘In fact your servant Jacob is behind us.'" Jacob thought, "I will first appease him by sending a gift ahead of me. After that I will meet him. Perhaps he will accept me."

Psalms 112:5
It goes well for the one who generously lends money, and conducts his business honestly.

Proverbs 2:11
Discretion will protect you, understanding will guard you,

Isaiah 28:26
His God instructs him; he teaches him the principles of agriculture.

Matthew 10:16
"I am sending you out like sheep surrounded by wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness,.... In the desert part of the world, inhabited by Pagans, Papists, and Mahometans; where the Scriptures, the rule of judgment, and where the Gospel, sometimes called the judgment of the Lord, Isaiah 51:4 had no place, now they shall have one, and an abiding one; and men of judgment in spiritual and evangelical things, and such as do justice and judgment, shall dwell there:

and righteousness remain in the fruitful field; both the doctrine and practice of righteousness shall continue in the church of God, which will be the glory of it; the righteous men will be the settled constant inhabitants of it; these will be all righteous at this time,

Isaiah 60:21 not only by profession, but in truth and reality; at least the far greater part; so the Targum interprets it of those that do judgment and do righteousness.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Then judgment shall dwell - Or, justice shall make its appropriate dwelling-place there.

In the wilderness - In the place that was a wilderness, but that shall now be turned to a fruitful field.

In the fruitful field - In the nation that is like a fruitful field; in Judea restored.